Electric Vehicles

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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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Just How Much Are E.V. Drivers Saving With Gas Prices Still High? Over a long period, gas prices tend to be more volatile than electricity rates. (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] Elrainia@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ridiculously cheap. We’re in the UK and our old IC car cost about £0.196 ($0.26) per mile (at today’s fuel prices) and our EV costs us £0.009 ($0.01) per mile; so around 20 times more expensive to drive an IC over an EV.

[We very rarely (i.e. twice) use public chargers. All charging is at home]

The longer eco story is even more astonishing, and I honestly wouldn’t have believed the figures 3 years ago.

We were lucky enough to be able to build an eco house. It took us over 2 years and I wouldn’t do it again, but that’s another story. However, the fuel bills are a real eye opener.

Our average monthly energy bill is around £30 ($40) (plus £20 ($26) standing charge - a fee you have to pay even if you don’t use any power). That works out to £360 ($483) a year, INCLUDING running the car!

Our old (much smaller) home was costing around £2000 ($2683) (plus 2 x standing charge, one for electricity and one for heating gas) and about £1200 ($1610) on fuel for the car.

So we’ve gone from a total energy bill (for living and travel) of £267 ($358) a month to £30 ($40) a month.

Obviously there are some huge capital costs in building an energy efficient house and buying an EV. But the recurrent costs are insane.